# Tanner Linsley

> Tanner Linsley is a Salt Lake City-based software engineer, open source creator, and founder of TanStack - the ecosystem behind React Query, TanStack Router, TanStack Table, TanStack Form, and TanStack Start. Co-founder of Nozzle.io, an enterprise SEO platform, Tanner built a multi-million-download open source empire by solving real problems he faced every day, pioneering headless, framework-agnostic, fully type-safe libraries now used by Fortune 500 companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Walmart, and Target.

- **Role:** Founder at TanStack / Co-Founder & VP of UI/UX at Nozzle.io
- **Organizations:** TanStack, Nozzle.io
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Digital Media - Internet Technology (partial); also studied Audio Engineering and Web Design/Development, Utah Valley University
- **Known for:** Created TanStack Query (React Query) - 49,200+ GitHub stars, used by Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Walmart, Created TanStack Table - 27,900+ GitHub stars, TanStack ecosystem: 2+ million monthly NPM downloads

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Started freelance full-stack development under Moab Ready
- **2013** — Joined Nozzle as early team member, building enterprise SEO data platform
- **2014** — Co-founded Nozzle.io as VP of UI/UX, left Utah Valley University
- **2018** — Released React Table, one of his first widely adopted open source libraries
- **2019** — Released React Query, pioneering the concept of server-state management separate from client state
- **2021** — Renamed React Query to TanStack Query; launched TanStack organization to house growing ecosystem
- **2022** — Released TanStack Router with full TypeScript type safety
- **2023** — Launched TanStack Form and expanded multi-framework support across all libraries
- **2024** — Announced TanStack Start, a full-stack client-first React framework
- **2025** — TanStack Start 1.0 released; TanStack ecosystem surpasses 2 million monthly NPM downloads; spoke at React Conf
- **2026** — Launched TanStack AI toolkit with OpenRouter partnership; TanStack DB enters beta; spoke at React Conf 2026

## Achievements

- Created TanStack Query (React Query) - 49,200+ GitHub stars, used by Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Walmart
- Created TanStack Table - 27,900+ GitHub stars
- TanStack ecosystem: 2+ million monthly NPM downloads
- 14,500+ GitHub followers with 164+ maintained repositories
- 90,000+ unique monthly website visitors to TanStack documentation
- Built TanStack Router as a fully type-safe client-first router
- Launched TanStack Start - a full-stack framework built on Vite and TanStack Router
- Released TanStack AI toolkit with OpenRouter integration (300+ models, 60+ providers)
- TanStack DB beta: embedded reactive client database integrated with TanStack Query
- Regular speaker at React Conf and other major frontend conferences
- Pioneered headless, framework-agnostic library design across React, Vue, Solid, Svelte, Angular

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — TanStack Start import protection feature released - Vite plugin enforces server/client code boundaries
- **2026-02** — Spoke at React Conf 2026
- **2026-01** — TanStack AI toolkit launched with OpenRouter partnership - access to 300+ models from 60+ providers
- **2026-01** — TanStack DB entered beta with 0.1 release - embedded reactive client database for TanStack Query
- **2025-12** — Appeared on Callstack Podcast and PodRocket discussing TanStack ecosystem evolution
- **2025-11** — Featured on Syntax podcast - Fullstack TanStack episode
- **2025-06** — Software Engineering Daily interview on TanStack Start, SSG, and type safety
- **2025-01** — TanStack Start 1.0 officially released

## Links

- Website: https://tannerlinsley.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tannerlinsley/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tannerlinsley
- GitHub: https://github.com/tannerlinsley
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tannerlinsley

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Last updated: 2026-04-20